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Sir Henry John Newbolt
1862–1938
Best remembered for stirring patriotic verse and school stories, this English writer also played an important role in public debates about education and national culture in the early 20th century. His work helped shape how generations of readers imagined duty, history, and England itself.
4 Audiobooks
Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War
by John Buchan, Sir Henry John Newbolt
Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt
by Sir Henry John Newbolt
Poems: New and Old
by Sir Henry John Newbolt
Submarine and Anti-submarine
by Sir Henry John Newbolt
About the author
Born in Bilston, Staffordshire, in 1862, Henry Newbolt was educated at Clifton College and later at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He trained as a barrister, but he became far better known as a poet, novelist, and essayist whose writing reached a wide British readership.
He made his name with poems such as Vitaï Lampada and with historical fiction including The Admirals All. His writing often drew on themes of courage, service, the sea, and national memory, and for many readers he became one of the most recognizable literary voices of his era.
Newbolt was also active in public life beyond literature. He served on an important committee on the teaching of English in England, and the resulting Newbolt Report became a landmark in discussions about English studies in schools and universities. He was knighted in 1915 and died in 1938.